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I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.

Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.